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Dossier · Roofing · St. Louis

Keys Roofing runs on software it owns.

A premium St. Louis roofing and gutter company, Atlas and Malarkey certified, was paying rent on somebody else’s CRM: per seat, per month, forever. We built them a command center around how their crews actually work, migrated everything, and shut the rented system off.

18
Modules live in the command center
9 days
From first working build to fully off the rented CRM
5-10 min
Inspections, down from 30-45 plus a manual write-up
$0
Per-seat software rent, forever
The first working build was live the same day we shook hands on it. Nine days later the old system was gone.

Keys Roofing sells premium roofs to homeowners who expect white-glove everything. Behind the scenes, the business ran on a rented CRM: nine separate job boards, files locked in someone else’s cloud, and a monthly bill that bought zero ownership.

We embedded with the team first. Watched how a lead becomes an inspection, an inspection becomes an estimate, an estimate becomes a crew on a roof. Then we built the system around that, not around a software vendor’s idea of roofing.

The migration moved 105 estimates, 50 invoices, 387 tasks, 44 work orders, 67 material orders, and 7,007 files spanning about 6.6 gigabytes, with automated checks on every record. Their team opened the new system and found their whole company already inside it.

What we built

One command center. Eighteen working modules.

Unified pipeline

Nine rented job boards collapsed into one live view: lead to inspection to proposal to crew.

AI copilot

Drafts texts, preps estimates, chases loose ends. It acts only after a human confirms.

Two-way texting

Carrier-registered business texting, live and delivering, logged to every job.

Smart-glasses inspections

An inspection used to take 30-45 minutes plus a manual write-up. Now the owner films through smart glasses and AI writes the adjuster-ready report: 5-10 minutes, done.

E-sign proposals

Good, better, best options homeowners sign on their phone. Signed jobs cut work orders automatically.

AI estimates from video

The same glasses footage drafts the estimate itself: line items, quantities, local pricing, ready to send.

Payments + QuickBooks

Hosted checkout with receipts, and books that finally agree with the pipeline, automatically.

Door-knock canvasser

A live canvass map with homeowner lookup from county parcel records across the metro. Replaced a $99-a-month tool with $0.

Warehouse

Materials inventory with printed QR labels and low-stock flags.

The gutter subscription

We turned gutter cleaning into a membership: monthly and annual plans, automatic billing, renewals, and perks. A roofing company with recurring revenue.

Online booking

Homeowners book inspections without calling. The calendar defends itself.

The OwnersFirm Network

Keys plugs into our owned network: rankings, referral routes, and lead flow that compound outside their own walls.

The network behind it

One constellation. Keys plugs into all of it.

Every star is a business we run, every dot an owned property, every line a route authority and leads travel. Keys Roofing didn't just get software. It got a seat on this board.

Marketing by Magnet 3,127 ranked pages Jones Air & Water 46 owned properties Brain Recovery Centers 24 satellite properties Keys Roofing brand + command center OwnersFirm the operator THIS ENGAGEMENT

Key

Star · a business we run
Dot · an owned property in its orbit
Square · press and research we cite
Solid line · owned mesh
Dashed line · citations outward
Brass ring · this engagement
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Domains
218
Interlinks
72
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What changed

What changed for Keys.

The rent stopped.

The per-seat CRM subscription is cancelled. The software, the data, and the customer list belong to Keys outright.

Revenue is visible.

Open pipeline, won work, and collections sit on one screen instead of nine boards and a guess.

The field got faster.

Inspections dropped from 30-45 minutes plus a write-up to 5-10 minutes: film through the glasses, AI writes the report and drafts the estimate. The canvass map turns door-knocking into a targeting system. Homeowners sign from their phones.

Revenue went recurring.

Gutter care became a subscription product with automatic billing: a monthly-revenue line a roofing company is not supposed to have.

Hardened like it matters.

A dedicated security pass closed roughly 53 findings before the team ever bet the business on it.

Your seat

One company per industry, per market.

If your industry's seat is open in your market, it starts with a visit to our office. Home turf, real dashboards, straight answers.